2 Baruch 13

1And it happened after these things that I, Baruch, was standing on the bank of the river, and a voice came from the height and said to me:

2And a voice came from on high and said to me, “Stand on your feet, Baruch, and hear the word of the Mighty One.”

3Because you were shaken by what has happened to Zion, therefore you will surely be preserved until the consummation of the times, that you may be a testimony.

4If the cities that now prosper should ever say, ‘Why has the mighty God brought this retribution upon us?’

5You shall say to them, and to those like them, ‘You who have seen this calamity and this retribution that has come upon you and upon your city at its appointed time—

6Therefore, they were disciplined at that time so that they might be forgiven.

7And if at that time they say, 'When?'

8I say to you, ‘You who have drunk strained wine shall also drink its dregs. For the judgment of the Most High shows no partiality.’

9Therefore, he formerly did not spare even his own sons, but afflicted them like his enemies because they sinned.

10Therefore they were then chastened, so that they might be sanctified.

11But now, you nations and peoples, you are guilty, because at all times you have trodden the earth and dealt with creation without righteousness.

12For at all times I did good to you, but at all times you denied my kindness.